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Jan 17, 2025 | 
jewishpress.com | Nadav Shragai
(Israel Hayom via JNS) The deal to bring the hostages home from Gaza carries an immense, largely unspoken price—one that has received far too little attention, if any at all. While some may support it and others oppose it, there exists a third path: acknowledging that this is a poor deal, albeit perhaps unavoidable, while simultaneously shattering the walls of media silence surrounding its dire consequences.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
clevelandjewishnews.com | Nadav Shragai
As hearts and souls burst with the desire to finally see the first hostages return home after so long, minds urgently seek answers to difficult questions that the emerging deal’s details, as revealed so far, do not currently address.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
thejc.com | Nadav Shragai
Two months ago, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered his "blessing and curse" speech at the UN—framing the curse as Iran's evil axis and the blessing as the Abraham Accords, which could expand further—he mainly had two countries in mind: Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. These could have been two strategic, game-changing agreements that would have dealt a significant blow to Iran's plans of imposing a siege and an all-Islamic war against Israel. But the Hamas war temporarily halted both.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
israelbehindthenews.com | Nadav Shragai
In the harsh light of history, the Simchat Torah massacre of last year stands as a Holocaust-like event, a “mini-Holocaust” that shook Israel to its core.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
clevelandjewishnews.com | Nadav Shragai
The high-level discussions led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the status quo on the Temple Mount are important, but to a large extent, they’re debating an illusion. The reality on the Temple Mount is in constant flux. The “sacred” status quo is a fiction, a white lie. The Muslim side has been altering the situation on the Mount for decades. Only now are changes coming from the Jewish side as well.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
israelbehindthenews.com | Nadav Shragai
Through our tears and with hearts shattered six times over, here’s a sobering truth that cuts through the emotion: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar doesn’t want a deal right now. He needs the hostages to ensure his survival and to keep extorting us. His strategy is to wear us down, to prolong our internal conflicts indefinitely, stretching them out for months and years to come. As long as possible. And we’re playing right into his hands.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
clevelandjewishnews.com | Nadav Shragai
The cries of ultra-Orthodox leaders echo through Israel’s political landscape. Protesters from Jerusalem’s “Peleg Yerushalmi” (Jerusalem faction) decry the potential conscription of haredi youth, even those not engaged in full-time religious study. Yet just over seven decades ago, a markedly different reality prevailed—one that seems almost fantastical by contemporary standards.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
lucianne.com | Nadav Shragai
Original ArticlePosted By: sunset, 7/10/2024 5:12:04 PMFor nearly 20 years, Hamas has smuggled enormous quantities of weapons and building materials through and under the Philadelphi Corridor, significantly advancing the construction of underground Gaza - the world's largest terror city, a modern-day Sodom. Anyone who still believes the Egyptians were unaware of this is deluding themselves. The tunnels were dug from house basements, orchards, and olive groves.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
israelbehindthenews.com | Nadav Shragai
In the ongoing dispute over weapons shipments between the United States and Israel, two possibilities emerge: either Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lying, or the Americans are being dishonest. After careful examination, the latter seems more likely – the Americans are obscuring the truth. Multiple shipments of various types of ammunition to Israel have been delayed since February – that is four months.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
jewishpress.com | Nadav Shragai
The planned sanctions by the United States against the Israeli group Tzav 9 (Order 9) should spark outrage from all who cherish democracy in Israel, regardless of political affiliation. In an egregious overreach, the Biden administration is infringing on the bedrock principles of free speech and the right to protest, and cracking down on a legitimate protest movement committed to preventing aid from enabling the enemy (Hamas) at a time of war.
